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Pogues - Drunken Boat Lyrics

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  • The wind was whipping shingle through the windows in the town
  • A hail of stones across the roof, the slates came raining down
  • A blade of light upon the spit came sweeping through the roar
  • With me head inise a barrel and me leg screwed in the floor
  • Mother pack me bags because Im off to foreign parts
  • Dont ask me where Im going cause Im sure its off the charts
  • Ill pin your likeness on the wall right buy my sleeping head
  • Ill send you cards and letters so youll know that Im not dead
  • By this time in a week I should be far away from home
  • Trailing fingers through the phospor or asleep in flowers of foam
  • From macao to acapulco from havana to seville
  • Well see monoliths and bridges and the christ up on the hill
  • An aria with the russians at the piano in the bar
  • With icefloes through the window we raised glasses to the czar
  • We squared off on a dockside with a coupled hundred finns
  • And we dallied in the dilly and we stoaked ourselves in gin
  • Now the only deck Id want to walk
  • Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet
  • And the only sea I want to sail
  • Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk
  • Where a kid crouced full of sadness
  • Lets his boat go drifting out
  • Into the evening sun
  • We sailed through constellations and were rutted by the storm
  • I crumpled under cudgel blows and finally came ashore
  • I spent the next two years or more just staring at the wall
  • We went to sea to see the world and what dyou think we saw?
  • If we turned the table upside down and sailed around the bed
  • Clamped knives between our teeth and tied bandannas round our heads
  • With the wainscot our horizon and the ceiling as the sky
  • Youd not expect that anyone would go and *****ing die
  • At nights we passed the bottle round and drank to our lost friends
  • We lay alone upon our bunks and prayed that this would end
  • A wall of moving shadows with rows of swinging keys
  • We dreamed that whole leviathans lay rotting in the weeds
  • Theres a sound that comes from miles away if you lean your head to hear
  • A ships bell rings on board a wreck where the air is still and clear
  • And up in heaven that means another angels got his wings
  • But all below it signifies is a ships gone in the drink

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